Pentti O A Haikonen

Dr. Pentti O A Haikonen

Full Adjunct Professor
University of Illinois at Springfield, One University Plaza
Philosophy Department, UHB 4026
Springfield, IL 62-703, USA

Dr. Haikonen’s research focus is on Machine Cognition, Robot Brains, Machine Emotions, Conscious Machines, and Artificial Consciousness. He has written three books about machine consciousness:

Consciousness and Robot Sentience. World Scientific, Singapore 2012.
What is consciousness and how to implement it in robots. Strong focus on qualia and the phenomenal aspects of consciousness. Contains also a description of Haikonen’s experimental cognitive robot XCR-1. (Buy this book at Amazon)